Invited Lecturers
Jean Jacques Greffet – Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures -Paris, France.
o Basics of plasmons
o Thermal radiation at the nanoscale
o Nanoantennas
Joerg Enderlein – Georg August University Göttingen – Göttingen, Alemania.
o Single absorbing/emitting molecules as oscillating dipoles
o Interaction of single molecules with dielectric and metallic (nano)structures
o Practical applications: Light detection and sensing, fluorescence anisotropy and rotational diffusion, single molecule defocused imaging
Theo Lasser – Laboratoire d´Optique Biomedicale, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Lausanne, Suiza
o Coherent Imaging – fundamentals and basic principles
o Structural and functional imaging
o Selected examples of imaging: from tissue to the molecular dimension
Evelyn Hu – School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University – Cambridge, United States of America
o Matching Optical Modes with Quantum Dot Transitions
o Forming high Q Cavities: a materials perspective
o Optical Cavities in Metallic Materials: Gap-Mode Plasmonic Cavities
Kishan Dholakia – Optical trapping Group, University of St. Andrews – St. Andrews, Escocia
o Basics of optical manipulation for microscopic and nanoscopic particles
o Optical nanosurgery
o Advanced light fields for nanomanipulation